Anderson Strathern is collaborating with Arts & Business Scotland (A&BS) to provide award-winning legal advice to the cultural sector. The firm will deliver four sessions as part of a series of business briefings run by A&BS.

Business briefings are a programme of short seminars to help not-for-profit arts organisations operate more efficiently in a business environment. The sessions are run in conjunction with the charity’s business members to facilitate cross-sector sharing of knowledge and skills.

Anderson Strathern’s employment and pensions’ law unit recently won Employment Team of the Year at the 2015 Scottish Legal Awards. Partner and Law Society of Scotland Accredited Specialist Barry Nichol will deliver two sessions on employment law while Head of Pensions, Steven Dunn will deliver two sessions on workplace pensions. The sessions will take place in both Edinburgh and Glasgow.

Anderson Strathern Partner, Barry Nichol said: “As a member of Arts & Business Scotland, Anderson Strathern is committed to businesses supporting the cultural sector and as such we’re delighted to be able to offer practical support in the form of delivering business briefing sessions.

“It’s crucial that not-for-profit arts organisations are equipped to manage themselves effectively within a business environment and I would hope providing targeted legal advice would go some way towards this.”

Head of Governance & Engagement for A&BS, Catriona Reynolds added: “We’re seeing a growing demand among our arts members for training which is more business orientated and we aim to address this through the Business Briefings. We’re delighted to be working with Anderson Strathern to deliver sessions which are relevant and specific to the needs of the cultural sector.”

The sessions take the format of a traditional business breakfast, being held first thing in the morning with breakfast provided and a strong focus on providing the opportunity to network